Istkalenic Elections 2024
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Several local and national-level elections are to be held in Istkalen through 2024.
Istkaleners will first elect, on 4 March, delegates to local and national-level workers' committees to succeed the outgoing leadership of the country's 16 workers' associations.
On 1 November, they will return to the polls to elect delegates to the territorially-organized people's committees, at ward, municipal, and regional levels.
1 December will see the last poll of the year - an indirect election to the 240 seats of the National Assembly appointed by the workers' associations and regional people's committees.
Whether you are an Istkalener, a foreign political junkie, or a Reitzmic spy, Republic and Nation invite you to follow the upcoming campaign with the joint, comprehensive coverage they are endeavoring to offer in this most crucial of years for the country.
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Electoral Procedures
The electoral procedures for all upcoming elections are defined by the Act on Electoral Conduct, passed shortly after the fall of the NSC, on 11 October 2023.
As regards the people's and workers' committees, the act creates a system centered around the Courts of Examination, traditional, semi-monastic orders that, over the years, have become integrated into the Istkalenic state. They are to be tasked with creating lists of candidates, one for each committee, regardless of level, from which voters will make their choice.
LIsts must be made in "consultation" with local "mass organizations," and have more candidates than there are positions to be filled. On election day, voters will be given a ballot on which the whole of the list will be printed, with the choice to indicate the candidate they most prefer. Blank ballots are to be counted as indicating that the voter approves most of the first candidate listed. Candidates will then be elected in order of the total number of "approvals" they received, until no positions are left to be filled.
Candidates are prohibited from campaigning. Outside organizations, however, can endorse them and campaign on their behalf; nevertheless, they cannot use the given candidate's or candidates' likeness or likenesses, or any representation or representations thereof, in any way in their activities.
For indirect elections to the National Assembly, the act stipulates that each of the 16 workers' committees and 7 regional people's committees appoint 11 and 25 delegates, respectively, to form an electoral college. This college will then vote on lists pre-prepared by already represented parliamentary groups and approved by the national Court of Examination; election will be organized and determined according to d'Hondt proportional representation, with a threshold of 3%.
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Results - National Workers' Committees
Elections to the 16 national workers' committees have concluded. Because of their nature, in which all candidates stand as independents, we cannot provide results based on party-affiliation; we can only project, roughly, party control. Our predictions are provided below:
Labor Committee: Communist
Cultural Committee: Communist
Students' Committee: Communist
Domestic Workers' Committee: CommunistCrafts Committee: Republican Syndicalist
Trades Committee: Republican Syndicalist
Industrial Committee: Republican SyndicalistNational/Civil Defense Committee: Statebuilding
Civil Service Committee: Statebuilding
National Distribution and Commerce Committee: StatebuildingPensioners' Committee: (Vesek-aligned) Farmer-Greens, w/ support from committee-members endorsed by Radical Democratic Party
Independent, Intentional, and Religious Communities' Committee: (Vesek-aligned) Farmer-Greens, w/ support from committee-members endorsed by Radical Democratic Party and the non-endorsedForesters' Committee: Agrarian
Fishers' Committee: AgrarianFarmers' Committee: National Republican-Agrarian
Miners' Committee: National Republican, w/ support from unendorsed committee-members